Comments on: The Power of Z Commands – Zcat, Zless, Zgrep, Zdiff Examples

By: SomeGuy

SomeGuy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:28:58 +0000

Is there a Z equivalent for “ls” like zls?

I’m imagining that “zls file.gz” is like “ls somedirectory”. “zcat -l file.gz” is already similar to “ls -l somedirectory”

“zipinfo -l” can’t be used for *.gz

By: Muneer Dar

Muneer Dar — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:43:08 +0000

Zcat is like Lion…. the king of all commands…

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By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:12:14 +0000

You have saved my day.

By: Abdulrehman

Abdulrehman — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:04:59 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing….Z commands are really powerful and helpful

Regards
Abdulrehman

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:43:23 +0000

Thanks a ton for the article…I will definitely use is as I have to grep through compressed history logs quite often. Can you tell me though which is faster zcat |grep *expr* or zgrep *expr* ?

Jason